Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Monday Mischief Delilah Style

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Last Christmas after feeding and walking the dogs, Hubby and I sat on the couch eating chocolate drizzled kettle corn and playing Donkey Kong on the Wii.

It was a very relaxing, enjoyable morning.

I haven’t seen the chocolate drizzled kettle corn since then, until the last time I was at Trader Joe’s. It was cocoa drizzled kettle corn.  Semantics, it’s still chocolate right?

Hubby has a habit of eating a snack on the couch and leaving the empty package on the table between the two seats.

(Personally I think putting a pull down table on a couch is the dumbest idea Bob’s Discount Furniture ever had, but I’m sure some people probably use it responsibly.  Sadly it doesn’t work in our house, it just becomes another flat surface that gets covered with stuff.)

I’m sorry, I digress.

Delilah has a habit of snooping about on the surface of the table to see if anyone has left anything edible up there.

Which is how it came to be that I came out of the bathroom and found this.

You like chocolate, why can’t I?

 

She wasn’t one bit contrite.

I sent Hubby a text asking how much popcorn was left in the bag.

He said not much, maybe a couple of handfuls.

Um…that didn’t help me much.  There is a BIG difference between my handful and Hubby’s handful.

I called the vet, it was just before 7:00 am.  My vet’s office doesn’t open until 8:30 but the vet is available after 7:00 if you call the answering service.

I asked them to send a message over to the vet as soon as they could.

The vet called me back at 7:06.

“So you’re kids are getting into trouble?”

“Only one, Dr. B.  Only one.”

She then reassured me that for her size, Delilah would probably have to eat two full size candy bars for them to make an impact.

She would if she had the chance.

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The Fog Was Freaky

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It was super foggy here yesterday morning.

I was on the fence about walking the dogs in the woods in the fog, so I thought we’d head up to the field, so they could at least stretch their legs.

The field was shrouded in fog.

 

You could probably see clearly 50 feet in front of you, but beyond that it was sketchy.

We walked into the field and I worked Delilah with a couple of long recalls, so she could run a bit and tire herself out. 🙂

From the field looking back at the path we came in on.

 

I looked at my watch, we’d burned five minutes.  I thought to myself, how many times can they walk around this field before Delilah gets bored and takes off?

I looked at the woods, they beckoned yet repelled me.

Should we? Shouldn’t we? Come on, the trees said. You know you want to.

 

I gave in, but proceeded cautiously.  It was a foggy day like this on New Year’s eve when I took a fall coming down that very trail.  I didn’t want to spend another night in the emergency room.

Plus for some reason I was pretty freaked walking in the fog, maybe the dogs sensed my unease or maybe they were a little freaked too, because they stayed really close.

I kept to the trails I was comfortable with and we enjoyed a half hour walk.

That’s Sampson running ahead, Delilah was right by my side.

 

After about a half hour, we headed home and while I was changing my clothes the dogs got their zoomies on, after which Sampson took a nap.

I’m trying to sleep here.

 

With his vest on. 🙂

I love this dog.

What kind of things does your dog do that makes you smile?

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

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I blew the co-hosting portion of the blog hop this week (AGAIN!).  Honestly, you’d think I could get it together, but I’m really struggling.

This is the Follow-up Friday blog hop (fondly referred to as FUF by me)  because sometimes you write something that requires a follow-up or someone will leave a comment that really resonates with you…Follow-Up Friday Baby!

Feel free to copy the badge and join the party.

 

(Reminder, if you’re interested in co-hosting a FUF, please let me know in the comments. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, I need co-hosts!)

This is going to be Harder than I thought – Author’s Note

If you have any problems ordering, please let me know.  I’d like to get all orders in by tomorrow so I can design and order the calendars and get them out for those of you who want to hand them out for Christmas.

Hello Again Dr. B – Update

The antibiotic cream Dr. B gave Sampson seems to be working, the spots are harder and harder to find.  And really, I’ve only managed to apply it once per day, it seems I’m better with giving them supplements than I am with apply ointments and such.

What Do You Think? – Author’s Note

All things Collies thought “The bone might have been meant as a reward for the car trip home, after someone took their dog on a long walk/hike. Or it might even have been a reward for someone practicing scent work with their dog(s) and it fell out of a coat pocket”

That’s a great thought and far more positive than my devious mind. 🙂

Still, I’m glad we tossed it because as many of you said, you just never know.

What I Learned From NaNoWriMo – Author’s Note

You all are so very kind, but I already knew that. While I didn’t complete the challenge, I do think I have the basics down for a good story.

When it will be completed and ready to let you all peek at, I don’t know.  I do know once my last commitment is completed this month and I have cleaned my house (as I have been promising it) I hope to sit down and work on this book.

Perhaps by the time BlogPaws 2013 rolls around I will have a reasonable rendition that I can share. 😉

Tuesday Night Tricks Class – Author’s Note

I have to tell you, I was leery about the treat on the nose trick, only because I know how excited Delilah is by treats.  The first couple of times I could barely get my hand away before she was snapping at it.  When that happened I needed to be quicker than she was to insure she didn’t get the reward.

Notice how close both my hands are to her face.

 

Once she realized the treat was coming from my left hand and not the treat on her nose, it became easier.  This is one trick I will continue to practice with her because I think it’s good for her to learn a little bit of self-restraint.

That’s it for me, I hope you have an awesome weekend.

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